If you want the official sequence: Evaporation (and transpiration) → Condensation → Precipitation → Runoff/Infiltration → Repeat. But if you want the emotional truth: Boiling drama → Cloud therapy → Sky tantrum → Earth cleanup → Repeat. And we never, ever include “dry laundry” in the cycle—that’s your problem, not the planet’s.
Now go outside and look at a cloud. Use your new knowledge wisely. And if someone asks you the water cycle order, you can smile, sip your coffee, and say: “It starts with the sun getting sassy and ends with the ground getting soaked. The rest is just weather gossip.”
